As title; all rooms labelled; "Scale of feet"; "WR Lethaby 1898" (all as photocopied from the original).

Subject

Lethaby;William Richard;

Notes

Was P.142.4. Photocopy of the ground floor plans for Melsetter House, Hoy, Orkney as designed by Lethaby around 1898; re-drawn/traced by John Brandon-Jones after sketches/designs by Lethaby. Lethaby was given the contract to re-design Melsetter House by Thomas Middlemore, an affluent Birmingham business man (he apparently commissioned Lethaby to design his house before he bought the estate).

Object Notes

Ground floor plans (larger image than R.115.2, which also shows the ground floor plan for Melsetter House). See the rest of R.115.1-4.

Book: Rubens;Godfrey;, William Richard Lethaby: his life and work 1857-1931, Architectural Press. 1986. Sale catalogue: Christies. 29 October 1991. Thesis: Rubens;Godfrey;, The life and work of William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931), Ph.D., Unive

Rights

University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection